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Safari Address Bar URL Spoofing Security Issue
Release Date: 2008-04-24 Last Update: 2008-05-02 Views: 19,354
Secunia Advisory SA29900
Where:
From remote
Impact:
Spoofing,
Solution Status:
Unpatched
CVE Reference(s):
Description
Juan Pablo Lopez Yacubian has discovered a security issue in Safari, which can be exploited by malicious people to display a fake URL in the address bar.
The problem is that it is possible to hide the actual location of a page in the address bar via a specially crafted URL containing a number of certain special characters in the "user" field before the "@" character.
The security issue is confirmed in version 3.1.1 on Mac OS X and Vista. Other versions may also be affected.
Solution:
Do not browse untrusted websites or follow untrusted links.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Juan Pablo Lopez Yacubian
Original Advisory:
http://es.geocities.com/jplopezy/pruebasafari3.html
Deep Links:
Links available to Secunia VIM customers
Do you have additional information related to this advisory?
Please provide information about patches, mitigating factors, new versions, exploits, faulty patches, links, and other relevant data by posting comments to this Advisory. You can also send this information to vuln@secunia.com
Subject: Safari Address Bar URL Spoofing Security Issue
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